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Dec. '21 1926. 1,611,403

A. T. BALES PACKAGE Filed Oct. 29, 1924 Patented Dec. 21, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

ASA. T. BALES, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR '10 GEO. I. PLANT MILLING 00., OF

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF MISSOURI.

PACKAGE.

Application filed October 29, 1924. Serial No. 746,673.

This invention relates to packages em-' bodying sacks adapted to receive products for shipment.

Certain commodities, such as flour, are put in sacks of textile material and such sacks are provided with characters designating the trade mark or brand and the manufacturer, jobber, or dealer. Such sacks, however, usually serve no useful purpose, except that of holding the product for shipment or until used.

One of the objects of'this invention is to provide a ackage havin asack, the cloth of which is adapted to be used for dress 1 goods after the product has been removed or consumed. I

Further objects will appear from the detail description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which the figure is a view of a package embodying this invention.

Referring to the accompanying drawing which illustrates a sack of flour of conventional form, in accordance with this invention the sack is of dress goods provided with a substantially indelible or permanent 7 pattern. Thecharacters, such as the trade mark, the name of the company, etc., are, however, delible so that they are capable of being washed away, thereby leaving the dress goods with the pattern unimpaired. While these characters are delible, they are substantially permanent in that they are of ink so as to have an advertising value. The sack of dress goods is, of course, of a size suitable of being remade into clothing. Preferably the dress goods is of a character known as gingham which is usually a cotton cloth having stripes or checks in two or more colors formed by yarn which is dyed variously before it is woven in order to provide the pattern. Such a pattern is substantially indelible in that it cannot be washed out except after repeated washings or with special solutions or soaps. The delible char acters are, however, of a fugitive jand impermanent ink or dye which are super-imposed on the pattern but which are capable of bemg washed. away so as to leave the pattern clear and free of these characters.

In accordance with this invention, therefore, a package is provided which has a sack of dress goods of substantially indelible pattern and which has'the trade mark, brand, etc., super-imposed thereon in delible characters. Accordingly while these characters perform an important and necessary function when the sack is used for packagingv the product, nevertheless after the sack has performed its packaging functions, the undesirable presence of these characters can be done away with by washing them out, thereby leaving the dress goods and its pattern unimpaired so that" the goods can now be conveniently used for the making of dresses, etc.

It is obvious that various changes may be made in details without departing from the spirit of this invention; it is, therefore, to be understood that this invention is not to be limited to the specific details shown and described.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

1. A package the contents of which are inclosed by a sackof dress goods of a size suitable of being remade into clothing and provided with a substantially indelible pattern and having substantially permanent but delible characters of advertising value which are capable of being washed away.

'2. A package the contents of which are inclosed by a sack of dress goods of a size suitable of being remade into clothing, the yarn of the goods being variously dyed before it is woven in order to provide a su stantially indelible pattern, the pattern having superimposed thereon substantially permanent but delible characters of advertising value which are capable of beingwashed away.

' In testimony whereof I aflix my signature this 3rd day of October, 1924.

ASA T. BALES. 

